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Automating WooCommerce & Oracle for KATI Sportcap & Bags

Automating WooCommerce & Oracle for KATI Sportcap & Bags

· Written by Josh Lambert

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KATI Sportcap & Bags is a wholesale distributor for caps, bags, and accessories. Their website has been a long-term, vital sales channel for retailers looking to source high-quality promotional and decorated apparel products.

While WordPress and WooCommerce provided a solid foundation for their online sales platform, WooCommerce lacked native integration with KATI’s back-office system out of the box. KATI needed seamless, bi-directional synchronization between their e-commerce store and their Oracle back-office system.

How I Helped

I engineered and programmed a custom integration bridge between WooCommerce and their preexisting Oracle back-office using PHP, webhooks, and system CRONs to provide the automation they required.

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This integration made KATI’s online operations seamless within WooCommerce. Working hand in hand with their existing web development team, I eliminated all manual processes and ensured painless synchronization:

  • Product SKUs entered into the Oracle back-office would import automatically into WooCommerce.
  • Stock levels from the Oracle back-office would synchronize, bi-directionally, with the website.
  • Orders placed on the website would feed into the Oracle APEX back-office automatically.
  • Previous customer account order history from the Oracle back-office would display seamlessly within the customer website.

Thanks to this integration, KATI could take advantage of a modern e-commerce framework like WooCommerce without having to upend their existing back-office processes and operations. This means they could stay focused on growth, customer experience, and seamless wholesale distribution, and not on manual processes and headaches.

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